Trasilla and Emiliana

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Saints

Trasilla and Emiliana
Died6th century
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church
, Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast
  • 24 December (Trasilla)
  • 5 January (Emiliana)

Trasilla (or Tarsila

virgin
saints of the sixth century. They appear in the Roman Martyrology, Trasilla on 24 December, Emiliana on 5 January.

History

Trasilla and Emiliana were sisters who came from an ancient Roman noble family, the gens Anicia. Their brother, Senator Gordian, was a very rich patrician with a magnificent villa on the Caelian Hill and large estates in Sicily.[1]

Gregory (Hom. XXXVIII, 15, on the Gospel of St. Matthew, and Lib. Dial., IV, 16) relates that his father, the

Roman senator Gordian, had three sisters: Trasilla, Emiliana, and Gordiana. All three had devoted themselves to a religious life and led a life of virginity, fasting, and prayer. They practiced their faith in their father's house, located on the Clivus Scauri in Rome.[2]
Gordiana, at first as devout as her sisters, later abandoned this calling and is thus not venerated as a saint.

Tradition states that

Epiphany
in heaven.

Tradition says that their

Celian Hill
.

Notes

  1. ^ Also, Tarsilla, Tharsilla, Thrasilla
  2. ^ Also, Amélia, Emilie

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainHerbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Sts. Trasilla and Emiliana". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.